...of who they are. Yea, I can't stand either of their politics, but keeping the voting system available to the people who are using it is a good idea. But, Bush is acting more like a liberal in a lot of respects, so who knows, he may go along with the idea. Though, the Ivory(r) percentage of the people in gov't don't understand a bit from a nybble, so it'll probably be shot down.
Oh, anyhoo, in keeping with my 0 score contest, please mod this down appropriately.
I will be on a Mac as fast as a fly can take a poop on your food, as soon as I can go to newegg.com, order me an ATX mac motherboard, install it in my Lian-Li case, add some IDE/SATA drives, and install Mac OSX on it. But, before that happens, I won't. I always build my own home systems, and I refuse to let another company make hardware choices for me.
Notebooks, on the other hand, are a different story. Takes a while to find one with the highest percentage of parts that I want.
Because we have a gov't full of wussies that'd never use them. It's all a "show" of force. The same reason why states that allow carrying firearms for protection have less crime.
I'd be more worried about freedoms that you're not going to have other than information... Travel, personal protection, due process, other stuff that is taken for granted, especially in the USA.
That was the first computer I ever seriously used. My dad, being the elder-geek, bought one back in... I think it was 1981, about a year before the Commodore 64 hit the market. It had come down in price since its release, and he thought it would be a good deal to pick one up. Started with just the computer, datasette, hooked up to our 19" Heathkit TV. Later, he built a computer desk, and added a 5" sony b/w TV, then a 12" b/w TV. He later wanted to do more than 22 columns of text, so he bought a 40/80 column adapter, and a green composite monitor. That worked well, though the 40/80 mode was only monochrome, and high-res color monitors in the early 80's were really expensive.
So, with 5K of RAM, and a datasette to save my programs on, I started to learn BASIC programming. My dad had been way ahead of me in the programming realm, as he was working on his Article Filer program (Later morphed into Flexi-Cat 128, for the Commodore 128, and he sold the program to LoadStar, and it made it onto one of the LoadStar 128 Disc Magazines) for quite a while. He decided that while the monitor had no audio, and we kept killing 9v batteries out of forgetting to turn off the external sound amplifier he built, he built that board and speaker INTO the computer. Neat trick, worked well, no more batteries. RAM was hacked and expanded from 5K to about 32K, a C1540 5.25" SS/SD 170K floppy drive was added, as well as a 9-pin dot matrix printer. Oh the joys of printer interfaces.
From those times, we moved up to a Commodore 128 in 1985, did the usual ROM, Video RAM and other updates to it. 20MB SCSI HDD, better Monitor, Stereo sound, multiple 5.25/3.5" floppies, laser printer... we had it all. Even a RAMBOard... if anyone remembers what those were...:)
Three years? I don't think I've ever had one just "shit the bed" on me. I always kept acquiring more, actually. Though my main 2 systems, a 64c and a c128, worked fine until I had to dismantle them due to space. I WILL have my c128 system back up and running soon, though, maybe even use my 128D. Just have to transfer or buy JiffyDOS for it.
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Cool, my =0 contest is still afloat!
...and totally forget to mention Trillian. Oh, sorry it runs under Windoze, better not mention it.
"When the bill requiring public school teachers to be homosexual atheist liberals passes."
So sometime in... 2009?
...of who they are. Yea, I can't stand either of their politics, but keeping the voting system available to the people who are using it is a good idea. But, Bush is acting more like a liberal in a lot of respects, so who knows, he may go along with the idea. Though, the Ivory(r) percentage of the people in gov't don't understand a bit from a nybble, so it'll probably be shot down.
Oh, anyhoo, in keeping with my 0 score contest, please mod this down appropriately.
I will be on a Mac as fast as a fly can take a poop on your food, as soon as I can go to newegg.com, order me an ATX mac motherboard, install it in my Lian-Li case, add some IDE/SATA drives, and install Mac OSX on it. But, before that happens, I won't. I always build my own home systems, and I refuse to let another company make hardware choices for me.
Notebooks, on the other hand, are a different story. Takes a while to find one with the highest percentage of parts that I want.
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Damnit. That's like hiring crackheads to work to bust crackwhores.
Just like the can-spam act increased the amount of spam, this'll increase the amount of spyware.
I say we just track the f'ers down ourselves and put them out of their (our) misery.
They only bring things out of your house one at a time, instead of grabbing 8 things in a bag.
What was that guy thinking for violating the burglar's right to privacy? The ACLU should be all over this.
For a serial robber? Eh, he'll be back out and doing this again... next time he'll just wear a mask while doing his work.
Remember, criminals & politicans have many things in common, one of which is they both prefer unarmed victims/phesants.
That's not even flamebait, that's lawyerbait. Yes, we'd all like to do that, and to the common sense mind (most /.'ers excluded), it would be fair.
But, you'd be sued. Yep. For protecting your own house.
Yea, me too. I live near Rochester, NY, and we've had some real cold spells, and I haven't had allergies in years.
I'm only 30, but the last several years should be long enough to gauge thousands or millions of years of climate change, right?
Because we have a gov't full of wussies that'd never use them. It's all a "show" of force. The same reason why states that allow carrying firearms for protection have less crime.
My tagline says it all.
I've stopped trusting the "big 3" news media outlets a long time ago. That, and most of the newspapers, too.
Roadrunner just upped their bandwidth to somewhere over 5mbit. Peaked higher than that recently, too.
I'd be more worried about freedoms that you're not going to have other than information... Travel, personal protection, due process, other stuff that is taken for granted, especially in the USA.
I'd look forward to some of that warming... I'm getting sick of 20F and 30F degrees below "normal" temperatures.
KA-Wote:
I don't really care about the excuses; selling a defective product is a disgusting practice.
Un-KA-Wote:
It's amazing how so many software companies get away with it, though.
You're a racist, sexist, pig. Not really, but I figure someone would say it eventually.
...really. I stopped watching that channel a long time ago. The history channel has a lot better technology coverage than G4 does.
That was the first computer I ever seriously used. My dad, being the elder-geek, bought one back in... I think it was 1981, about a year before the Commodore 64 hit the market. It had come down in price since its release, and he thought it would be a good deal to pick one up. Started with just the computer, datasette, hooked up to our 19" Heathkit TV. Later, he built a computer desk, and added a 5" sony b/w TV, then a 12" b/w TV. He later wanted to do more than 22 columns of text, so he bought a 40/80 column adapter, and a green composite monitor. That worked well, though the 40/80 mode was only monochrome, and high-res color monitors in the early 80's were really expensive.
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So, with 5K of RAM, and a datasette to save my programs on, I started to learn BASIC programming. My dad had been way ahead of me in the programming realm, as he was working on his Article Filer program (Later morphed into Flexi-Cat 128, for the Commodore 128, and he sold the program to LoadStar, and it made it onto one of the LoadStar 128 Disc Magazines) for quite a while. He decided that while the monitor had no audio, and we kept killing 9v batteries out of forgetting to turn off the external sound amplifier he built, he built that board and speaker INTO the computer. Neat trick, worked well, no more batteries. RAM was hacked and expanded from 5K to about 32K, a C1540 5.25" SS/SD 170K floppy drive was added, as well as a 9-pin dot matrix printer. Oh the joys of printer interfaces.
From those times, we moved up to a Commodore 128 in 1985, did the usual ROM, Video RAM and other updates to it. 20MB SCSI HDD, better Monitor, Stereo sound, multiple 5.25/3.5" floppies, laser printer... we had it all. Even a RAMBOard... if anyone remembers what those were...
Long live EagleSoft.
Well, the entire car isn't a sticker, the base colors are paint, but all the graphics are decals.
I suppose, to a smaller extent, it would help lower crime rates if this was also done at all NBA games.
Three years? I don't think I've ever had one just "shit the bed" on me. I always kept acquiring more, actually. Though my main 2 systems, a 64c and a c128, worked fine until I had to dismantle them due to space. I WILL have my c128 system back up and running soon, though, maybe even use my 128D. Just have to transfer or buy JiffyDOS for it.